Summary
- 73% of Flathub apps labeled as “AI Slop” were abandoned within months.
- Many were deleted or received no updates after release.
- Analysis suggests the Flathub app AI ban helped spare reviewers and curb quick abandonware.
Of course they are. That slop is unmaintainable.
Probably people who thought they could make an app with AI, realised it’s not possible to make good software without actually learning how software is made, and never opened Cursor or whatever again.
It’s easy to slop together the 10 Billionth remake of Pacman, Minesweeper, Kanban board, ToDo list, etc.
Actually making something innovative, unique, interesting, and useful is tough. It requires skill, knowledge, creativity, and passion to keep at it long after the high of vibe coding your first solitaire game fades away.
If LLMs are blockchain 2.0, then Vibe coding is its NFT fad. Just a way to take advantage of useful idiots who think being a software engineer consists of typing code all day as fast as possible.
I the clearest indication of this is that we have not seen any products to displace existing market leaders.
Ah yes, the great filter.
Maintenance is always the hard part.
Especially if vibe coded…
especially than
The sloppiness of people relying on slop.
Why they didn’t measure a baseline of general apps and non-AI apps abandonment rate?
Without a contrast the information is useless?
For all we know the abandonment rate of general new apps might be 98% or maybe 2%, who knows they didn’t gave us that number.
As far as I know they didn’t even measure it. They only took 120 apps labeled as AI without trying to get any contrasts data. Incredibly poor methodology.
I agree with you, they should have done this (was suggesting this early in the comments too). I wouldn’t say the information is completely useless, but its true that without context its hard to make hard conclusions.
Have some self-respect. Don’t put vibe-coded software where other people might run it.
